Contamination in tortoise food
Frequently we are wondering for the need of washing fresh vegetable and fruits that we provide to our tortoises (or any other animal). While I never had doubt for such […]
Frequently we are wondering for the need of washing fresh vegetable and fruits that we provide to our tortoises (or any other animal). While I never had doubt for such […]
As a behaviorist I was blessed with the ability to get into the mind of animals that I am raising. Unlike most people (including tortoise holders) think, tortoises […]
Located at San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines, Zoo World (https://zooworldph.wordpress.com/) began from a private collection of tigers in 2007. Soon birds, reptiles and other small mammals were added to the collection. […]
The Gea Chelonia Foundation (http://www.geachelonia.org/index1.php) is managed by Ivo Ivanchev and concentrates its activities at the Bulgarian Centre for Tortoise Research and Conservation at Banya, Bulgaria. The Center has been […]
The International Center for Tortoise Conservation collaborates with different institutions that aim to conserve and save tortoises worldwide. Since we aim in the far future to reintroduce tortoises to their […]
An emergency case I was called to on a stormy day: A 50 cm long, 5 Kg C. sulcata, has been reported with anorexia and exhaustion. Upon arrival to the […]
Success in breeding our Geochelonae elegans. Mating in November 2014 Egg laying by our adult female Hopefully we will see new hatchling by the spring season.
Once a week we collect fresh lettuce and other vegetables from kind farmers that agree to let us collect the green to the animals. We are grateful to them
Omphalocele is a pathological situation in which a neonate is born/hatch with an incomplete closure of the abdominal cavity. In this condition, an organ or some organs are usually stay […]
Vitamin A Hypovitaminosis: A Case Report Subjectives Signalment: Two male Burmese mountain tortoises (Manouria emys), with an estimated age of 6 years old. Chief complaint: bilateral apparent blindness that developed […]